A Style manual for English-Luganda-English Dictonary

Publisher: Institute of Languages, Makerere University
Date: 2005
Pages: 38If the most fundamental factor of endogenous economic development of any society is the use of a national language as the primary medium of scientific and technological discourse, then the need for a terminologically fully-fledged language becomes discernible. The present style manual which was developed at the Institute of Languages, Makerere University is designed to illustrate the transformability of Luganda into a language intertranslatable with major present-day media of science such as German, Russian, French and English. The conernerstones of the manual are:
a. extrapolation of Luganda word formation rules,
b. an extensive list of Luganda equivalents of Greco–Latin affixoids,
c. and standardized rendition of scientific English affixes into Luganda.
Although the biological nomenclatural systems are internationally required to be in neo-Latin, the manual presents Luganda equivalents for the purpose of relative semantic and conceptual transparency. Currently, compilation of general-purpose and specialised dictionaries is at an advanced stage using this manual.